Hi Qi, On Friday 13 December 2013 11:09:01 qi.c...@windriver.com wrote: > It's a very common situation in OE/Yocto that the recipe authors/maintainers > either forget to set the CONFFILES variable or set it wrong. > > For example, we don't have CONFFILES set in the shadow recipe. As a result, > /etc/login.defs from the shadow package is not treated as a config file. > Another example is the base-files recipe. We set the CONFFILES variable, but > it's not a complete list. Basically, all files under /etc should be treated > as config files for this recipe. > > Such mistakes are not easy to find, because when we add or upgrade a recipe, > we usually only test whether it functions well, we don't take into > consideration the on-target upgrade process. > > So we need to improve the situation here. > > This patchset consists of two patches. The first one is the main patch which > changes the way CONFFILES is handled in our project. The second one serves > as an example how to fix individual recipes. > > As almost all files under /etc should be considerred as config files, we > don't need to modify a lot of recipes after the first patch. Take shadow as > an example. We don't need to modify that recipe after this change. The ones > that need to be paid attention to are those that set CONFFILES in their > recipes. The second patch serves as an exmple how to fix this.
This definitely sounds like a good idea, but do we need to give special consideration to /etc/init.d/ since files under there aren't really configuration files? Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core